The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-06-11
The Die is Cast and Waco
Wakes UP and is Her
self Again.
An Earnest Nii>>- Meeting. small
in Number but IulI of Girl
lud Bu>incNs.
Not a Dissenting. voice. Perfect
Harmony, ANA Probably
~IOO. 900 sIb>CTibCd.

Tho mass meeting called by the
citizen, railroad committee as-scn.
blrd lat night mt the court house.
About one hundred aud nifty only
were present. but 1t was largely cum
posed Of representative men. Tho
meeting was called 10 order by MIR. a.
j. Caruthcrs whonomiuatcd Col VIM.
Cameron ~ chairman, and Mr. Cam.
orOn took tho chair amid applause
Mr.. John H. Finks wn, appointed
secretary. Mr.. Cameron briefly cX.
plalned the object of the meeting and
called on Mr.. Rotau TO state the action
OF tho citizens committee which had
given rise TO the call for the meeting.
Mr.. Rotan briefly stated what tho
citizens committee had done. II had
hcld repeated meetings aud accom-
pli-hcd little or nothing aud cOr'I
not without the support OF the ent' c
people, aud 1t had recon-.
mcndcd that II voluntary assessment
OF five per cent on the taxable value
ot real estate rs lOWn by the assess
mcnt rolls be- levied to provide idnd
to tie used in sccu'ing railroads lie
had, ho said, seen CORES OndcnCc
between railroads ana the towns OF
Hamilton, llillsbOro, Meridian aud
tbs officers of the Cotton Belt route
propo ~ipg to run the Corsicqna road
from llil0sboro to Meridian and per-
haps Hamilton. As TO the evenly
thousand dollars which had been so
much asked about, he had the names
Of fourteen persons who had each
subscribed 5000 for roAd from
Wacp TO Hamilton, but that scheme
had iailcn through in spite ot MI that
could be done to Induce others to
subscribe, but those fourteen persons
still stood to their pledges. He lctt
tie subject To the consideration
OF tho mass meeting.
Mr. l'luks. chairman OF the com
mittoc %. ten 10 solicit subscriptions.
which had been appointed to solicit
the -ubscr ption OF i've per cent, wo-
called on TO state what he had done
I'm that direction and stated that he
had blanks prepared for use by the
members of the committee,
one of the blanks Was
y pledge of live per cent
ON real estate and tho other was u
subscription OF money from those
who dld not subscribe on real estate,
and tho form of tho blanks wa, read.
MIR ioAu inn short talk cXplaincl
how contemplated roads attached
much moro temperance TO donations
of right OF way and terminal tacilil
ties than to mere money subsidy.
Tho money raised was for the purpose
that the proper partic, might be able
to secure those things when necessary
to induce road 10 como 10 Waco,
and that " hen IL vas raised ii would
be turned over To different commit
tee from the present one, which did
not desire to handle the money. 1t
WAS necessary for the people 10 Join
in mn united effort and such efforts
generally got railroads. Waco had
not tried 10 get roads rs Dallas, Fort
" orth and other cities had,
MIR. Cameron followed in rousing
speech, recitiug the roads that had
been and were being built by cities
III llNl tAhlH iNAhNt anu INV AlAANNu y
of money those roads had subscribed.
while Waco WAS folding her arms.
When he anne to Texas, Dallas, Fort
Worth and those other towns were OF
small size aud les, Importance, and
Waco wa, one of the chief cities of
Texas, and now the others had conc
far ahead OF Waco,
He had done everything he could
sor Waco; he had spent largo amounts
OF money here; he had nude it his
home and be had lis interests deeply
at heart. The committee of fifteen
was composed OF good men, but they
could not do every thia,ng and he esrn
estly urged the parties present 10
come 10 the support of the committee.
II this was done, Waco could, in ten
years, be city OF 10000 inhabitants,